Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside of Edinburgh, where it has its headquarters, Distillers Co. Ltd. is hardly a household name. Yet on its own and through a large family of subsidiaries, the company produces more than half the Scotch sold round the world, and its bottles carry most familiar labels: among them Johnnie Walker, Haig, Dewar's, Vat 69, White Horse and Black & White. The company also dips in a big way into gins and vodkas -producing, among others, Gordon's and Booth...
D.C.L.'s chairman, Sir Robert Gumming, 66, a fourth-generation distillery-man, last year was knighted "for services to export." Small wonder. Johnnie Walker, the world's top-selling Scotch, sends more than a million cases a year to the U.S. This month, making his annual report for the twelve-month period ending March 31, Sir Robert said that overall exports of Scotch rose by 9,120,000 million gal., or 16%, to a total of 65,440,000 gal. Distillers Co. Ltd. also made marked gains with its gins and vodkas, especially in the U.S., where...
...same quiet mountain glen near Lynchburg, Tenn., for a hundred years. The Daniel output has, under Brown-Forman management, been doubled, though it still far from meets the demand for what some drinkers regard as the best sippin' whiskey of all. The company now sells Usher's Scotch, Bols liqueurs and imported wines as well, and Street's main job will be to look out for other likely acquisitions...
SNAFFLING means rounding up a group for a party at which BASH, a devastating blend of fruit juice, rum and Scotch, is the preferred drink. Bars like the Sea Turtle in Ocean Beach and Flynn's in Ocean Bay Park are good for snaffling from 10 p.m. on. So is the SIXISH, a bring-your-own cocktail party that starts at 7 p.m., seems to move of its own accord from one grouper house to another...
...Western companies went all out to sell them. The British, who had conceived Incomex '66, opened case after case of Scotch for their visitors, who thirsted not only for knowledge. From New York, London, Vienna and Stuttgart, IBM rushed in programmers to solve particular problems. Sperry Rand, displaying eight plaques representing earlier sales to Communist customers, advertised itself proudly as "The Pioneer of Automation in Socialist States...